Spirituals are songs that were sung by slaves to give them hope and give them secret messages like the song wade in the water that told the people to wade in the water and because the dogs can't sniff them out when they swim in the water.
These songs were also used by Harriet Tubman who was an escaped enslaved woman that used songs like these to tell others that it's safe, where to go or how to get there. She used the underground railway to which was a connected network of tunnels and safe houses that were used to transport slaves up north where they would be free.
One spiritual is wade in the water which tells the slaves to wade in the water to escape from the dogs.
I think that its a good description of what the secrets of the song wade in the water.
ReplyDeleteGood job Lily, maybe next time you could try make the photo visible so I can see it, this is a good blog post.
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